In this article, published in the acclaimed journal Nature Human Behaviour, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad and co-authors tested if indirect genetic effects reflect within-nuclear-family transmission or instead a multi-generational process of social stratification. Their findings can be read below.
In this article Arno Van Hootegem, Ole Røgeberg, Bernt Bratsberg and Torkild Hovde Lyngstad examines the correlation between cognitive ability and educational attainment across male birth cohorts in Norway. Their findings can be read below.
In this article, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad and co-authors investigate interactions between polygenic indices for educational attainment and environmental levels. Their findings can be read below.
In this working paper, Tina Baier and co-authors examine the role of genes in the study of equality of opportunity. They do this by testing theoretical assumptions, using twin methods and register data from Finland. Their findings can be read below.
In this working paper, Arno Van Hootegem, Adrian Farner Rogne and Torkild Hovde Lyngstad estimate how much variation in class positions that can be attributed to genetic and environmental factors. The results can be read below.
In this working paper, Tina Baier, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors investigate whether intergenerational transmission reflects within-family processes or social inheritance. Their findings suggest that the effects of the environmental processes characterized as “nurture” are explained less by parents’ specific behaviors and more by dynastic stratification in environments relevant to success in school.
In this article, published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", Martin Isungset, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors approach the question of the influence of genetics and social environment on educational outcomes - in a Scandinavian welfare state.
In this article, Martin Isungset, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors investigate if birth order differences in education are caused by genetic differences. Their findings show that birth order differences are not biological in origin, but pinning down their specific causes remains elusive.
In this article, Tina Baier, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors address a shortcoming in previous research on intergenerational correlation of educational attainment, by adopting a Multiple-Children-of-Twin design and decompose the ICE into its environmental and genetic transmission mechanisms.
Sykehusene måtte omstille seg raskt da COVID-19 pandemien inntraff januar 2020. Denne artikkelen, av Lars Erik Kjekshus, belyser organisering og ledelse av pandemihåndtering ved Oslo universitetssykehus HF. Publisert i Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift.
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a total digital disruption of all activities at universities. New digital tools and arenas replaced the daily physical interactions between students and professors. How did this affect motivation and learning outcomes?
This article, by Ida Poppe and Lars Erik Kjekshus, uses the pandemic as a prism to understand how and why social relations and interaction are important in the educational system. Published in Current Psychology.
In a recent article published in Economic Geography, Terje Wessel investigates business services employment as a driver of income segregation. A key finding is that business services, particularly financial activities, exert a strong influence on income inequality but also, and independent of the former effect, on income segregation.
Based on a nationally representative survey in Georgia from 2021, Alexi Gugushvili and colleagues confirmed the association between perceived social mobility and physical and mental health, satisfaction with life, and the perceived state of affairs in the country. Published in Frontiers in Psychology.
This paper, by Aleksander Bern and Per Gunnar Røe, examines how the use of architectural competitions may change democratic and participatory aspects in urban planning. Published in Cities.
Katrine Fangen has recently reviewed the book "Hate in the Homeland: The new global far right" by Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Published in Young.
In this article, Maren Toft discusses the potential for quantitatively accounting of the social world as relationally constituted in both a topological and a temporal sense. Published in Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique.
Managers of street-level organizations play an important role in the successful implementation of public reforms. A prevailing view within the public administration literature is that this work involves the adaptation between reforms and local contexts, where divergence is viewed as a form of resistance to change. This article, by Lars Klemsdal and colueagues, challenges this prevalent reform-centric view by introducing a situation-centric perspective and coining the concept of situational work as a significant form of managerial work during implementation. Published in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.
Protective security management aims at protecting against malicious acts. It has, in a relatively short period, undergone substantial changes. One such change is the introduction of risk management. This article by Anne Heyerdahl investigates a debate about a standard for security risk assessment (SRA) in Norway. Published in European Security.
Simulation games are increasingly popular tools for opening up future imaginaries, especially in the arena of sustainability policy-making and decision support. However, there is a lack of understanding regarding the potential power of games in anticipatory governance. Manjana Milkoreit and co-writers explore this in new article in Geoforum.
This article by Michael Gentile and Martin Kragh contributes to the growing literature on how authoritarian regimes deploy disinformation and conspiracy theories to achieve foreign policy goals. While the effectiveness of these measures is disputed, their study—which is based on a rarely occurring natural experiment—makes an empirical contribution in this direction. Published in International Affairs.
The effects of socioeconomic position (SEP) across life course accumulate and produce visible health inequalities between different socioeconomic groups. Yet, it is not well-understood how the experience of intergenerational income mobility between origin and destination SEP, per se, affects health outcomes. This is what Alexi Gugushvili and co-writer explores in this article in PNAS Nexus.
We are honoured to serve as the Editors of European Societies, the flagship journal of the European Sociological Association (ESA), for 2021–2026, says Alexi Gugushvili and colleagues in the latest issue of the journal.
In this article published in International Migration Review Are Skeie Hermansen, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and colleague study whether neighborhood equalization contributes to intergenerational persistence in neighborhood contexts among descendants of immigrants in Norway.
This article in Socius shows how women in Norway are now more likely to receive college degrees than men. Yet important differences remain in the college majors of women and men.
In this research article, Agnes Fauske and her co-authors describe the results of a systematic review of the literature on the effects of policy on fertility since 1970 in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia.